Strategic Thinking Contracts in London

Strategic Thinking
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Strategic Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 278 316
Rank change year-on-year +27 +38 +16
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 136 223 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.78% 0.86% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.95% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 143 202
10th Percentile £413 £400 £475
25th Percentile £463 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -6.15% +12.07%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £750
90th Percentile £836 £925 £816
England median daily rate £580 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.04% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £16.80 £27.38 £35.85
25th Percentile £31.53 £36.56 £38.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £53.75 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% +23.56% +39.20%
75th Percentile £71.25 £71.56 £54.25
90th Percentile - £81.13 £59.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £53.75 £43.50
% change year-on-year +30.23% +23.56% +10.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Strategic Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,485 23,572 35,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 90.94% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 17,002 26,006
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 268 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.56
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +14.16%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.31 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.60 £82.33 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +6.79%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in London.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in London.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Thinking in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the London region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +42 23 £575 +9.52% 23
West London +19 1 £588 -9.62% 11
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.94%) Sketch
3 3 (2.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (2.21%) InVision
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.74%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.74%) Trello
4 1 (0.74%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Shopify
2 3 (2.21%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.47%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.74%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.97%) Azure
2 10 (7.35%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.62%) AWS
3 9 (6.62%) Figma
4 6 (4.41%) BigCommerce
4 6 (4.41%) SaaS
5 4 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.94%) GCP
5 4 (2.94%) Tricentis Tosca
6 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.21%) Serverless
7 2 (1.47%) Bloomreach
7 2 (1.47%) Collibra
7 2 (1.47%) Contentsquare
7 2 (1.47%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.47%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.74%) BGP
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.74%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.74%) IPv4
3 1 (0.74%) IPv6
3 1 (0.74%) LAN
3 1 (0.74%) MPLS
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) OSPF
3 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) VSAN
3 1 (0.74%) WAN
3 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.35%) Power BI
2 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.68%) Tableau
3 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.74%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 7 (5.15%) JIRA
2 4 (2.94%) LoadRunner
2 4 (2.94%) NeoLoad
3 3 (2.21%) Mockito
4 2 (1.47%) Axure RP
General
1 70 (51.47%) Social Skills
2 36 (26.47%) Finance
3 26 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (8.82%) Retail
6 11 (8.09%) Marketing
7 10 (7.35%) Legal
8 8 (5.88%) Law
9 6 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.41%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.21%) Banking
11 3 (2.21%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.47%) Advertising
12 2 (1.47%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (1.47%) Front Office
12 2 (1.47%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 21 (15.44%) Senior
2 15 (11.03%) Architect
3 13 (9.56%) Analyst
3 13 (9.56%) Lead
4 12 (8.82%) Designer
5 11 (8.09%) Product Owner
6 7 (5.15%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.41%) Senior Manager
8 5 (3.68%) Consultant
8 5 (3.68%) Product Manager
8 5 (3.68%) Programme Manager
8 5 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.94%) Developer
9 4 (2.94%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Performance Test Leader
9 4 (2.94%) Senior Product Owner
9 4 (2.94%) Teradata Specialist
9 4 (2.94%) Test Leader
9 4 (2.94%) VMware Engineer
10 3 (2.21%) Head of Analytics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.21%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (2.21%) JAX-RS
1 3 (2.21%) Kafka
2 2 (1.47%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (1.47%) Swagger
3 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.74%) Django
3 1 (0.74%) HTML
3 1 (0.74%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.74%) JSON
3 1 (0.74%) LangChain
3 1 (0.74%) Middleware
3 1 (0.74%) PySpark
3 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.74%) VML
3 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.68%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.21%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.47%) Blog
5 2 (1.47%) CMDB
5 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.47%) DataPower
5 2 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.47%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.47%) Solar Power
5 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.74%) Animation
6 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.21%) Linux
1 3 (2.21%) Mac OS X
1 3 (2.21%) Unix
2 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.82%) Agile
1 46 (33.82%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (18.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (16.18%) Roadmaps
4 18 (13.24%) Analytics
5 17 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 16 (11.76%) Decision-Making
6 16 (11.76%) User Experience
7 15 (11.03%) Coaching
7 15 (11.03%) Mentoring
7 15 (11.03%) Scrum
7 15 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (10.29%) Project Management
9 13 (9.56%) Change Management
9 13 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (9.56%) Service Design
9 13 (9.56%) User Research
10 12 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (8.82%) Journey Map
11 11 (8.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.15%) SQL
2 6 (4.41%) Python
3 4 (2.94%) Java
4 3 (2.21%) Ruby
5 1 (0.74%) Bash
5 1 (0.74%) C
5 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.74%) Scala
5 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
1 15 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.82%) Degree
3 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.47%) CSPO
4 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.47%) MBA
4 2 (1.47%) PhD
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.74%) CCNA
5 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.74%) MCSE
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.74%) PMP
5 1 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.62%) QA
2 3 (2.21%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.47%) GDPR
3 2 (1.47%) PMO
3 2 (1.47%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.21%) Docker
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) VxRail
2 4 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.94%) PowerCLI
3 3 (2.21%) Terraform
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.62%) Dell
2 9 (6.62%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.88%) SAP
4 7 (5.15%) Adobe
5 6 (4.41%) Sitecore
6 5 (3.68%) VMware
7 4 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (2.94%) Greenplum
7 4 (2.94%) iManage
7 4 (2.94%) Intapp
7 4 (2.94%) Netezza
7 4 (2.94%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.94%) Oracle
7 4 (2.94%) Sybase
7 4 (2.94%) Teradata
8 3 (2.21%) Cisco
8 3 (2.21%) Google
8 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.47%) Citrix